The US Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether the constitution forbids the Bush administration from holding American citizens indefinitely and without access to lawyers or courts when they are suspected of being “enemy combatants.”

The US Supreme Court refused today to consider whether the government properly withheld names and other details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the weeks and months after the September 11 terror attacks.

Six Europeans were on board an Algerian airliner which crashed soon after take-off deep from in the Sahara Desert today, killing 102 people.